[OTR-users] multiple keys, one account

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:
> Is there any particular reason, with the Pidgin OTR plugin, that one
>  could not use a second set of OTR encryption keys for a second computer
>  with the same IM service account(s)?  Would this potentially cause any
>  issues for other people with whom one communicates via these accounts?
>
>  The problem I'm trying to solve here involves one computer that's less
>  "trusted" than the other.  One is in a work environment where others have
>  access to the computer, on an MS Windows machine, and the other is a
>  private machine running a free Unix-like OS that is its owner's sole
>  responsibility.  One, then, would be identified as the less-trusted key
>  set, and the other as the more-trusted.

Sure. it just works. Don't have your contacts authenticate the less
trusted one.. and they'll be able to tell which they are talking to by
the lack of authentication.